KJV King James Version
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
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Romans 9:13
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
So it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
WEB World English Bible
Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
ASV American Standard Version
Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
according as it hath been written, ‘Jacob I did love, and Esau I did hate.’
Surrounding context — Romans 9
10 And not only [this]; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, [even] by our father Isaac;
11 (For [the children] being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? [Is there] unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then [it is] not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
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Malachi 1:2-3I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,Deuteronomy 21:15If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:Genesis 29:33And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the LORD hath heard that I [was] hated, he hath therefore given me this [son] also: and she called his name Simeon.Genesis 29:31And when the LORD saw that Leah [was] hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel [was] barren.Proverbs 13:24He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.Matthew 10:37He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.Luke 14:26If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.John 12:25He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
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